[ale] cleaning out /tmp

Jim Popovitch yahoo at jimpop.com
Sun Sep 2 22:52:39 EDT 2007


On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:06 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> Debian cleans /tmp at boot time. Evidently, Ubuntu decided to break
> this sane behavior. Here's something that might work for you --
> http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_clean_.2Ftmp.2F_folder_contents_on_shutdown

While looking at that URL out of curiosity.... I realized that, if
your /tmp dir is a mounted partition, those instructions would purge
lost+found.  Question: what's the value of lost+found on /tmp mount
point anyway?

-Jim P.




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